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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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HORDES OF MEN desolated, struck down, destroyed, sunken form of skin and skeleton, bare cloth matted to torso, bodycage and hipbone, face and neck darkened, bloating to black, rain the endless dream stuck fast in the stone-dead skull and blood a fine sheen over all,…
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There are stranded people just like us, that's Not necessarily what I'm looking for. Negativity won't pull us through the Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I Was the only one, I wouldn't want you To look any different in the mirror. I'm older …
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ghosts of the previous owners who leave a trail of whispers
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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He doesn't call, not even on her birthday. She doesn't mention it or complain. She knows she doesn't have it as bad as some, even in this privileged Triangle of North Carolina. She is white and pretty and belongs to what's left of the middle…
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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The leaves/
seek reunion with the ground//
and leave the oak tree naked/
in December’s cold.
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War Stories #1The Germans didn't like that theJews had such beautiful women.War Stories#2There must have been a war between the good witches and the bad witches. It's the only thing that would account for such troubling times.Woman With Yellow HatWhy did…
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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I am i said pursued by the feeling of being watched.You are she said -- by yourself. As in a dream, a dream you know you're dreaming. Which changes nothing.We are she said watching from the mezzanine, half-above, at once a part and apart.
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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